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The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?

SaaStr

Ready When AI Hit and Went All-In When ChatGPT launched in late 2022, most SaaS companies scrambled to add AI features. Tap the link in bio to watch the full interview. The numbers tell the story: Q1 2025 : 39% revenue growth year-over-year, with U.S. commercial deals closed in Q1 2025 vs. 70 in Q1 2024 2025 guidance : $3.89-3.90

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Sales In The Age of AI: The Playbook from The CROs of Databricks, Windsurf, Perplexity and Owner

SaaStr

Learning #2: AI-Native Hiring is Non-Negotiable Windsurf : Graham Moreno requires “a key component of the sales interview now is: what are you doing with AI? The New Interview Standard: “I don’t care how good this person is—if they’re not in the tools and what I consider to be AI native, we can’t hire them.”

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GTM 128: The Death of Demos and Selling What Customers Actually Need with Fred Viet

Sales Hacker

I think one of the things that AI has done, particularly, like, you know, recently, like, OpenAI and what they did brilliantly was, you know, ChatGPT getting in the hands of, like, consumers. Our others are ripe for opportunity. So you have to see, like, how far we’ve come.

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How Youtube 5x’d our Activation Rate

OpenView Labs

Previously this market was limited to enterprise, but with ChatGPT becoming more mainstream and stronger AI models (LLMs) becoming available, the market for AI assistants was expanding from something that only big enterprise companies had to a commodity that every SMB and Midmarket customer would want.

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Dont Get Burned with Recruiting AI Vendors with Jeff Pole

Go Hire- Saas

The discussion also dives into why relying on generic LLMs like ChatGPT for resume screening maybe not be very effective, based on Martyn Redstones LLM Reality Check on LinkedIn, where Martyn uploaded 100 resumes against the same job description and found that barely 15% surfaced consistently across multiple models.

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GTM 146: The Future of Search, AI, and Digital Presence with Mike Walrath, CEO of Yext

Sales Hacker

14:30 The new battleground: how AI engines like ChatGPT shape discoverability. Learn more at [link] The GTM Podcast The GTM Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. ChatGpT is gonna know your location. 22:00 Why structured data is the foundation of AI-first marketing.

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GTM 147: RevOps Is a Hidden Growth Engine with Navin Persaud, VP of RevOps at 1Password

Sales Hacker

Book your AI transformation session today: [link] The GTM Podcast The GTM Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. Navin Persaud: there was two interviews this morning and I got the same question, and my easiest answer is you have to be curious if you are anything else.